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Note: I am reposting this in order to include the registration link. On April 23, the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University will hold an event on “Solving the Nation’s Housing Shortage.” I will be speaking along with economist Bryan Caplan (George Mason University), author of Build, Baby, Build: The […]
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s stories include: Minnesota’s zoning reform bills stall in the Legislature. New York’s housing deal does little for new supply and leaves everyone unhappy. Colorado bans laws regulating how many unrelated people can live together. But first, we have this week’s lead item about […]
Happy Tuesday and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s stories include: The Saudi Arabian government is downsizing its ridiculous plans to build “The Line.” Hawaii is considering giving counties the power to ban short-term rentals. A study examines when affordable housing mandates get you less affordable housing. But first, our lead story […]
In a recent article in the Jesuit publication America, urban policy commentator Addison Del Mastro explains “Why Catholics Should Resist NIMBYism”: The cost and supply of housing has gone from a problem associated with a handful of high-growth cities to a national crisis. Anybody who has moved in the last three years understands this. Calls […]
New Zealand flag. (NA) The United States is far from the only country that has experienced serious housing shortages in recent years. Canada, Britain, and several continental European nations also have similar problems. But one country, New Zealand, has managed to significantly mitigate theirs through the simple expedient of cutting back on zoning regulations […]
(NA) Joe Selvaggi of the Pioneer Institute (a Boston-based think tank) recently interviewed me about exclusionary zoning, and my forthcoming Texas Law Review article on that subject (coauthored with Josh Braver of the University of Wisconsin). We cover the harm caused by exclusionary zoning, its undermining of property rights, and the reasons why it violates […]
Happy Tuesday, and welcome to another edition of Rent Free. This week’s stories include: The White House imposes rent controls at federally subsidized affordable housing developments. San Francisco undoes reform that had the unintentional consequence of allowing too much housing. A new National Bureau of Economic Research study finds that eviction moratoriums led to increased […]
A man’s home is his castle. Or is it? Over the past couple of weeks, squatters’ rights—whereby someone who isn’t a legal owner or tenant claims a right to stay in someone else’s property—has moved from a 30 Rock joke to the subject of white-hot internet discourse. Kicking off this controversy have been several viral […]
Reading insurance trade magazines isn’t everyone’s idea of a great time, but every Californian should pay attention to the latest news in that arcane world. “State Farm to pull out of 72,000 California insurance policies,” blared a Reinsurance News headline. State Farm provides nearly 21 percent of state homeowner policies, so this is big news. […]
(Illustration: Lex Villena; Lev Kropotov ) In recent weeks, there has been a lot of media coverage of squatters’ rights laws that sometimes have the effect of blocking property owners from removing trespassers who occupy their houses without the owners’ permission. Newsweek describes some highly publicized recent cases: A recent string of incidents in Georgia, […]